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We’re sounding the trumpet this week on Harmonia, with magnificent baroque trumpets in virtuosic solo music and majestic choral and orchestral works from Monteverdi to Telemann. Our featured release is Altissima: Works for High Baroque Trumpet with soloist Josh Cohen.
Bronislava Volkova reads "Dog" and "Farewell to My Sweet Kushi" from her 2023 book Where Everyone Leaves Never to Return.
We pay tribute to the late singer, activist and humanitarian Harry Belafonte, who passed away this year at age 96. We’ll explore his expansive recording career, which encompassed folk, calypso, jazz, blues and more.
Probably the greatest rock band in name only ever.
Historian Emiliano Aguilar on Latinx politics in East Chicago, how political representation isn’t necessarily a panacea for historic discrimination, and why we should keep paying attention to local politics. Plus, a guilty pleasure.
A birding festival, a Hoosier abstractionist, and Wabash aglow.
The festival features acts like Kyle Kinane and Melissa Villaseñor, as well as local comedians.
In the last decade of his life Art Blakey continued to mentor new talent in his Jazz Messengers group, helping to elevate musicians such as Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, and Mulgrew Miller.
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We’re celebrating the Cleveland baroque orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, which enters its thirtieth season in 2022. We’ll follow their journey from baroque standards like the Monteverdi Vespers and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, forward to Mozart, sideways to traditional American and British music, and backwards to Celtic chant and cantigas.
Lisa Kwong reads "An AppalAsian Finds Home in Bloomington, Indiana" and "Searching for Wonton Soup."
We’ll continue highlighting the work of the “Rat Pack” this week, with a focus on “Mr. Wonderful” himself, Sammy Davis Jr. We’ll chronicle his recording career and explore why he got the nickname “Mister Show Business.”
This week, Jack Lindner on why we should watch old movies on film, and Alicia Kozma on how to approach movies that have outdated attitudes about social issues.
In the summer of 1961 pianist Bill Evans hit a new creative peak with his trio. Then the trio's gifted bassist, Scott LaFaro, died in a car wreck. What happened next?
A Ukrainian art form, a lively bike race, and a unique 1950's style home.
Our staff is off this week so we will not be taking submissions tonight. Please play along from home!
It’s episode number one thousand . . . and we’re celebrating by going medieval, or mostly anyway, podcast-style, with my guest David McCormick, the executive director of Early Music America and member of the medieval ensemble Alkemie, who’ve also created the music for the video game Pentiment.
Michael Luis Dauro reads selections from the "Woman With No Name."
This week and next, we’ll celebrate two of the members of the so-called “Rat Pack.” This week, a close look at the life and music of “The King Of Cool” Dean Martin, and his songs like “Ain’t That A Kick In The Head.”
On Sunday, May 21, the Bloomington Early Music Festival kicks off a whole week of concerts and activities under the theme "Arabia, Iberia, and Latin America," expanding the focus of early music beyond Europe.
On Sunday, May 21, the Bloomington Early Music Festival kicks off a whole week of concerts and activities under the theme "Arabia, Iberia, and Latin America," expanding the focus of early music beyond Europe.
There's a meadow in eastern Kentucky where people sometimes hunt mushrooms, get married, attend a music festival. Something that's not happening? There's no prison getting built. This week, Judah Schept tells us why that prison was a close call.
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For more than 600 years, the Ottoman or Turkish Empire governed much of the Mediterranean and Western Asia, leaving a strong impact on the arts, including music. This week on Harmonia, we visit this theme again, this time focusing on ways that contemporary musicians are using Turkish traditional music to inform their approaches to the music of the past.
